Daniel Massey

Bio

Daniel covers the New York economy, including labor, immigration, housing, and economic development. Before coming to Crain’s, Daniel worked at the Star-Ledger, where he wrote a six-part series on a soldier nearly killed in a roadside bombing in Baghdad. He reported for Newsday on the Bronx fire that killed nine children and one woman from two Malian families. And he covered Queens for the Times Ledger, earning the New York State Press Association’s Rookie Reporter of the Year award. In 2003, Daniel produced Persons of Interest—on Muslims detained after Sept. 11— which was an official selection of the Sundance, Rotterdam, Locarno and Human Rights Watch film festivals. He's written a book on the role Nelson Mandela’s alma mater played in the South African liberation movement. Daniel holds Masters degrees from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, and a BA from Brown University. He was born in Washington Heights and raised in the Bronx.